Another year, another Christmas

Here we are, Christmas again.

I put on my Santa outfit and the generosity started.  Not everyone can be a cool spirit bear like myself, so animal hats were probably the next best thing.

I got myself a little something too.  That disgusting bag Nicholas insists on carrying me around in was getting a little worn down so I upgraded his flash sack.  Let it be known the flash sack gift is in no way an endorsement of the sack as the preferred means by which I wish to be transported.

I also got a new outfit!  Nick’s mom and Anna sewed me a new hoodie!  It’s about time!  Now I can be extra stealthy in really clean white snow!

Annnnd we’re building lego

I had this idea once we were back home again that we would be getting right onto our gaming machines.

Instead I learnt that all the family was already in town, and that gaming would have to wait.

At least the positive was that I got to build a B-Wing space ship featured in a movie that I haven’t yet seen yet.

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There’s got to be some positive to that?

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I’m good at directing things to be built.

Christmastime!

It’s Christmas!  It’s one of my favourite holidays again!   It’s a strange Christmas though because we had no tree and hardly any Christmas decorations.  But at least we have Christmas gifts!

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We’ve been away for a long time so I’m sure my bud must have gotten me some cool game presents to make up for it.

I was in such a good mood I made the effort to 3D print some cool Christmas name tags.  I focused on blinging out the name of the giver.  That’s the important part after all.

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And then it was time to open my presents.

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First I got Canadian Smarties.  They’re cool.  But I’m already a pretty smart bear.

Then my bud got a bandana.  I took it and put it on.  Looks better on me anyway.

Next I got to the packages that were from my bud.  I can’t wait to see what they are!

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STEAM GAME CONTROLLERS! Yesss!  I have more ways to game.  I knew my bud would come through for Christmas.

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To the media room, Nicholas!

It’s showtime, baby (bear)!

The one blingy thing we DID do on Christmas Day was we went to see a show.  Since Pokin and PoOn wanted to save some money they got the kind of tickets that didn’t come with assigned seating.

So we waited outside the theatre for over an hour to make sure we got an okay seat.  No matter.  I was in good spirits.

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Eventually we were allowed in.  Show time!!  Turns out the theatre isn’t super big anyway so there were no bad seats in the house.

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We went to see V-the Variety show because nobody could decide what we wanted to see.  So we got a little bit of everything.  I got to see juggling, magic, physical comedy, some skating and some strong people lift other strong people.  I liked it.  Here was the cast.  The two guys from the right were the guys who were originally part of the strong men sequence in Mystere.  That’s cool.  It’s nice to see other strong beings.

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Good show.  Go Nicholas, go faster.  Let’s go gaming.  Go faster.

 

 

A Vegasy Christmas

We’re in Vegas, so there should have been so much bling! But my bud said we’d do a low key Christmas.  It was so low key we did our gift exchange in a room with white walls and a white desk.

Still I was in a festive mood and I was a pretty generous bear this year.  Santa Sumi went to town!  I made sure my bud had some sweet presents.

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And my bud didn’t disappoint.  He got me a raptor.

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And I got to try on some mittens.

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There was even a calendar made with my face on it.

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It’ll do for this year being a low key Christmas.  But there still should have been more bling.

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

With my bear box decimated from the Big Ass TV purchase, I wasn’t able to finance a Big Ass Tree this year.  So at first I was worried it wouldn’t really be that festive.

But then a package arrived.  Happy Holidays, the box said.

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Triple Chocolate Cookies!  Double Fudge!  This must be the first of many Christmas presents for me!  Oh Christmas!  I can’t wait!!  I got so excited I dove right into the box.

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This is the way to kick off celebrations!

I have the best bear bud in the world

He got me a flying quadricopter for christmas.  It came with lasers.  It was awesome.  We flew it inside the house.  Over people’s heads.  I thought that was even more awesome.

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Then we flew it outdoors.

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I liked flying it indoors better.

 

In turn I got him a super-video card so that we can crank up all the settings on our video games.  It was so super it came with 3 fans.   I’m so thoughtful.

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All we’re missing now is my uber gaming bear cave.

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